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114 Cards in this Set
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Base
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Ruth
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Mercy, sympathetic
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poltroon
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whimpering coward
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lout
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lacks grace
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chandler
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candle-maker, works with wax
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cobbler
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works with leather
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legerdemain
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trickery, a skill used by a magician
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protraction
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to increase in duration, extend, draw out, to prolong
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blandishments
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flattering remarks
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dross
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waste produced during metal smelting; garbage
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dereliction
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negligence, poverty
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compendious
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summarizing completely and briefly
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guffaw
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to laugh
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spartan
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austere, simple, bare
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travail
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hard work
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wizened
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dry up, shriveled, withered, wrinkled
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compunction
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remorse, feeling of uneasiness caused by guilt or regret
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contravention
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violation
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sedulity
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industriousness, attentiveness, concentration
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maladroit
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clumsy,tactless
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preternatural
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supernatural, abnormal
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pariah
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outcast, rejected and despised by society
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vintner
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a person who sells wine
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winnow
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remove chaff (grain husks) from crops
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dregs
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sediment
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feral
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wild, not domesticated
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dour
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sullen, gloomy, stern and severe
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paean
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song of praise
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rectory
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place where clerics live
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refectory
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room where meals are served
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perfidy
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faithlessness, breach of trust
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setentious
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full of pithy maxims
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abrogate
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to abolish or invalidate by authority
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extant
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opposite of extinct
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incursion
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intrustion into another's territory
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logy
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lethargic
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proscribe
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to forbid or prohibit as harmful
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eschew
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shun, abstain
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purblind
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unable to see
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convoke
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to call together, summon
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unguent
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an ointment that soothes
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stanch
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stops the flow
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polarize
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to concentrate around two conflicting positions
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insensible
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unaware, unable to feel
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impasse
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deadlock
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largess
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generosity, willingness to spend money
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misoneism
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fear and hatred of change and innovation
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fealty
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loyalty one pledges
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pugilism
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to fight with fists, box
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nepotism
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relating to relatives
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peculation
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act of embezzling
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unctuous
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greasy, oily, smug and falsely earnest, ingratiating, fawning
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venial
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forgivable
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recumbant
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lying down
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abnegation
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self-denial
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deign
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condescend
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biddable
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tractable, obedient
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amercement
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penalty
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insidious
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sly, wily
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baleful
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evil, harmful
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imprecate
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to curse, as opposed to consecrate
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contumacious
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stubbornly disobedient
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fustian
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bombastic
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effeminate
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feminine, as opposed to virile
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bemoan
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to lament
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clandestine
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hidden, secretive
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malapropos
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not appropriate
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uncouth
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boorish, crude, uncultured
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accolade
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praise, mark of acknowledgement
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perquisites
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privileges or profits
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anodyne
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something that soothes/alleviates
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ennui
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boredom
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covey
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group of quail
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tautologous
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redundant
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adventitious
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not inherent, not innate
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avocation
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hobby
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asinine
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stupid
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beatific
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manifesting joy, bliss
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canaille
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mob, lowest class of people
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aplomb
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self-possession, poise, confidence
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avidity
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consuming greed
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corpulent
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solid, stiff, flesh, dense
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abject
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misery
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exchatology
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doctrine concerning final matters, ie, death
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supercilious
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crudeness, arrogant, haughty, overbearing, condescending
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halcyon
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peaceful or calm
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refection
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refreshment, restoration
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punctilious
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very exact, very careful
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meretricious
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in a cheap, showy way
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sapid
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pleasant to taste, opposite of insipid
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emulator
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a rival or competitor
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boon
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blessing or benefit, opposite of calamity (a misfortune)
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impolitic
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not polite
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stentorian
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loud
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leitmotiv
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a repeated phrase associated with a particular person/mood
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niggardly
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miserly, stingy, parismonious
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susurrus
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a whispering sound
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retinue
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group of followers
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pellucid
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transparent, opposite of nebulous
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bellicose
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quarrelsome, war-like
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baneful
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harmful, ruinous
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exiguity
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scarceness, paucity, opposite of capacity
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preponderance
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superiority of power
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oppropbrious
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disgraceful, contemptuous, opposite of irreproachable
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untoward
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not favorable, unruly
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deference
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respect, honor
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headlong
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recklessly
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stygian
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dark
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augury
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prophecy, prediction of events
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inveterate
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confirmed, long-standing, deeply rooted
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pine
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to wither or waste away from longing or grief
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slake
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to calm down or moderate, to ease
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ochlocracy
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rule by a mob
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accretion
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slow and steady accumulation of something
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